Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast."
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Strategy
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Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art."
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"Strategy is figuring out what not to do."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure."
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy."
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"Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results."
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"Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow."
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"I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse."
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"Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy"
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"Strategy is a system of expedients."
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"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable."
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"Worrying about a problem is not a strategy for change."
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"When guerillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary, pursue him when he withdraws."
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"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."
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"Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself."
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"I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music."
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"The best marketing strategy ever: CARE"
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"Wishing of all strategies, is the worst."
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"Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present."
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"Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change."
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"Attack the enemy's strategy."
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"As the means, so the end."
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"The best armor is to keep out of gunshot."
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"I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy."
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"If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient."
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